Snowhook Auction

“Maybe we should say something about Snowhook Kennel,” Admin says, “for newcomers to the blog.”

“A pleasure,” says Spence. “Snowhook is a wonderfully humane racing kennel based in Willow, Alaska, that competes in sled dog races, including the famous Iditarod. Rebecca and Justin are a great couple who run the kennel (Justin’s the musher) and we at chetthedog.com plus a lot of people who come here every day love to support their efforts. Maintaining a racing kennel and taking good care of all those beautiful dogs is expensive. This evening there’s an auction – closing Sunday – to help raise money, with lots of good stuff available. All you have to do is go to the Snowhook site (http://snowhookkennel.blogspot.com) and a link to the auction will appear when it’s time for the auction to begin. Did I leave anything out?”

“Probably.”

Welcome Baby, Might Maude.

And here’s Spence in NYC with Liz Perl (an extremely able and important person at Simon and Schuster):

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I am twirling, and skipping waiting for the auction and dying to know what is in that briefcase handcuffed to AJ’s arm.

(Whispering) Spence, I know your specialty is fiction, but maybe, just maybe, you should write a book about Snowhook, AJ and Rebecca, and all the great dogs. Maybe I can bring back some source material…the Prof loves to talk, and is very interested in many things….

Rose: Alice is the mesmerizing pro. If she can’t do it no one can.
btw: Don’t worry about those koolish Alaskan temperatures that Bella has been reporting. I’m sure it will warm up by February. Heh, heh.

What a Big Day this is. We get to find out about the Top Secret Item, as well as all the other auction items which are all Top Secret to us!
Spence explains Snowhook and their special significance to all of us on Chet The Dog’s blog.
We see a wonderful picture of Spencer and a top exec at the publishing company.
Melanie posts a very funny Christmas picture courtesy of Bluecat.
G&BB’s mom sends out very very funny pictures!
Great Day here in Chet the Dog Land!

Rose: Just josh’n (smile), but we know when CHobbit & Bella are telling us anything above freezing is t-shirt weather they aren’t kidding.
Bluecat: Very funny cartoon! Thanks for posting, Melanie.
B&M: It is something fantabulous. I just know it!

The mail carrier just drove in and handed Mom and early Christmas present. Do youse remember those 4 mugs that we could purchase from the Spring boutique, for T&G’s mom to paint anything we wanted on??? Well they have arrived. Each of us is on a mug! PLUS there was one extra special package that said “Open Last”. Guess what? It was a 5th mug, with Misha Moonman on it ! Wow. Twirling so fast, Mom just fell over. Thanks Amalia!

-35 here.
Once again I returned from Kentucky and came down with a horrid cold. I wonder if the cold, dry air sets it off. I am debating canceling my dentist appointment which took me weeks to get. For some reason not being able to breath well while in a dentist chair with a mouth full of instruments doesn’t sound like a good idea. Plus I always feel when they put the chair back like I am practically standing on my head–not good for a stuffed up head. Plus it hurts to swallow. I have an hour to decide what to do.

Greetings from the Lovestruck Producer Show. We are all set up – even though we only have 12 feet for our booth. But the booth looks pretty good , and we can say the show itself is GORGEOUS. Such beautiful work from all over the world. We are just awestruck.
And we can’t wait for the auction tonight!
Howlers – whew! We can breathe again.

Time for my Christmas message. After that foggy Christmas night, the other reindeer resented Rudolph more than ever. When Rudolph was being entertained by Santa and Mrs. Claus, they held secret meetings. They let him play in the reindeer games, but they were watching, waiting for the right moment. It’s reindeer nature – you can’t change it.

Well, it’s been an interesting day at the Lovesick Producer Show. The location for the show is right on Mass Ave – a main thoroughfare of Boston/Cambridge. But the car accident directly in front of this building kind of slowed down the traffic – foot and car. Thank goodness no one was just, but it sure was a mess. And since it is Mass Ave, there were about a dozen cops, two fire trucks, 3 or 4 ambulances and 4 tow trucks. We were expecting the FBI anD the SWAT team to show up.
All this for a two car collision.
Aw heck – we don’t care. We sold a pot and a few other things. Tomorrow is the big day.

Back from the dentist. I had a problem area on my gum line so I felt I had to go (inflamed and bleeding since August). The next appointment would be into the new year which would mean I’d be paying the annual deductible, etc on my health insurance. I figured that if the dentist was ok with my cold, I would be ok. If not, I’d go home. I did find out that when they lay you back on your head,in the dentist chair at least you are not dripping on anything. She isn’t sure the problem is fixed so we will see.

Since I always say that I am good down to -30, I took my dogs out so they could run around. They have missed it the last few days and really enjoyed it–running through the snow, eating snow, fake playing with each other. I love being with my dogs outside (but enjoy it much more in the summer)

Sasha, a belated happy birthday to you. The cake looked beautiful. A beautiful cake for a beautiful dog. 17 years old!!!! Wow.

All this talk about traffic in the city…Now that I am retired, there is a rock band that I would like to see in concert on tour next year. Mind you, I haven’t been to a major concert in 30 or more years. I am ok with getting a plane ticket and a hotel room but the thought of getting to/from the concert venue and being with 30,000+ people FREAKS ME OUT. I tend to not like crowds and being by people drunk and screaming or singing off key is not exactly appealing. Perhaps if I could see it as an adventure like I am sure Rose is seeing her Alaska trip???

CHobbit, As someone who has had major dental work done through her entire life, I hope everything goes well for you.
The Prof and I are not fond of crowds either. The last really, really big concert the Prof and I went to was the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour at the old Shea Stadium. Heh!

I am thinking of Alaska as an adventure….an adventure in staying warm! 🙂

Molly’s Mom is here because she’s going to a party tonight. She came in with a hot gluten free pizza and chocolate chip cookies. I helped her with that. She thinks its safer to out with her tummy full and not eat at the party. Tomorrow I go back to almost ski country. First we’re going to Petco to get me some warmer clothes – like a sweatshirt with legs in it.

The rents just returned, pizza in hand. Guess what? They are picking up our new Huskymobile on Monday. We will miss our Jeep but they say this is just as roomy, and since it is brand spanking new, it will much more reliable. So we can take long trips together. Awooooooo!

Ditto on what the Royals said. And by the way, mom really likes the lobstah, no Corgi spit, right? In the button box we found afew genuine Corgi hairs, but alas, not enough to make me a sweater. Mercy boo coo.

They said we are getting an Outback, whatever that is. They say it is dog-tested, but won’t be Kat-approved until next Tuesday. heh heh
Whose decision was the 8:30 start time! May as well be 2:00 am to those of us who start work at 6:30 am.

Yeep! I almost missed my flight out of the village which means I would have missed having an internet connection while I wait for my connecting flight. Wheeze! Had I missed my flight, I could not post the link to the auction. Whew! At least the tanker of kawfee and the other of beer were delivered to Auction Central on time.

Wose: February will be warmer for your big trip to Alaska. I promise. I’ve been in a village two hours north of home by plane. -43…s-s-so c-c-cold…

I think Auction Central is opening late because we have to wait for Rio to get home from work and Snowbella to catch her flight and oh! only 15 minutes!
Oley Howlers: The start of the auction is fun but the important time to have free will be Sunday. Go get some sleep unless you want to see the Secret Surprise!

Oh my – what wonderful things there are on the auction. Except for the #$%^&* Top Secret item. How are we supposed to get to sleep when we still don’t know what is in the envelope? Dam dam and double dam.

Bee – that was a wonderful thing you did with the poem. We are counting our treat pennies, hoping hoping hoping….

Heh, Staff has 4 windows open. One with the auction rules, one with the auction items and one with her email program and newbid@yahoo.com copied on her mouse and ready to paste. The last window, it is the blog. Heh. She is as busy as a one armed paperhanger.

However she says someone should checkout rule 8 in the auction rules. It made her laugh. If it is true she is SOL.

(rule)8. You can place a bid now through November 30, 2012, 8:30 P.M. EST.

We have to go to bed now – tomorrow is another (show) day. We will check in on the auction tomorrow night, cuz we figure the show is going to be packed all day with billions of customers spending huge amounts of money on pottery and jewelry, and then we can bid on everything!
G’night all

Wheeze!….Auction Central was blurring there for a while – I hope I got all the bids in now…sniff!…We were having a few technical problems behind the scenes so it was a little slow going there at first…grunt!

Bids!…You will need to refresh the Auction Page to see the updated bids in the “Comments” section under each item….snort!…Some of the posts above make me wonder if youse guys are doing that or not…grunt!…Its just like this here blog, you have to Refresh to see the new stuff…wheeze!

Goodnight!….Auction Central signing off for tonight!…snort!…You can still send your bids in and ((yawn!)) they will be recorded and updated tomorrow morning…sneeze!…As soon as I’ve had my bowl of cawfee…grunt!

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